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Ein Käfer auf Extratour
Superbug Goes Wild
Superbug the Wild One
West Germany 1973
produced by Rudolf Zehetgruber, Eduard Stoeckli (executive) for Barbara
directed by Rudolf Zehetgruber
starring Rudolf Zehetgruber (as Robert Mark), Sal Borgese, Kathrin Orginski, Walter Giller, Walter Roderer, Ruth Jecklin, Carl Möhner, Evelyne Kraft, Walter Nowak, Franz Muxeneder, Antonia Stöckli, Eric Falk, Erner Lässer, Bert Star, Alexandra Nowak
written by Rudolf Zehetgruber, music by Peter Weiner, special effects by Ivan Frehner, Richard Richtsfeld
Superbug
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Jimmy Bondy (Rudolf Zehetghruber) and his superbug Dudu go to London to
help their stuntman friend Aldo (Sal Borghese), who has just been swindled
out of half a fortune by slick Ivan Leskovich (Carl Möhner), but before
they can get their hands on Leskovich he has already taken off to
Switzerland - where to Bondy and Aldo follow via Lisbon, an eccentric
Swiss millionair, Stützli (Walter Roderer) in tow.
In Switzerland, Bondy and Aldo track Leskovich down to Jo's (Kathrin
Orginski) garage - where Aldo promptly falls for Jo's assistant Jac
(Evelyne Kraft), and can you blame him - and decide to accept undercover
jobs at the place, messing up one of his car deals and selling him a fake
Dudu for way more money than he has ever cheated them out of.
Then Richie's (Walter Giller) gang (including among others Franz
Muxeneder as comic relief and Eric Falk as strongman) uses the real
Dudu as an escape car at a bank heist, but somehow they lose both the car
and the money, and kidnap Jo to get it back - but in the end, all ends
well, naturally.
None of the Superbug films is really good in any
sense, but this is the worst one yet, a weak comedy full of lame jokes and
sloppily executed slapstick routines, garnered with some second-rate
special effects. It might be some fun for 1970's nostalgia freaks and
comedy masochists (and to a degree I am both) but it fails to convince
anyone else.
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